Book Launch: Multisensory Experiences

Most of our everyday life experiences are multisensory in nature, they consist of what we see, hear, feel, taste, smell, and much more. Almost any experience, such as eating a meal or going to the cinema, involves a magnificently complex sensory world.

In recent years, many of these experiences have been increasingly transformed through technological advancements such as multisensory devices and intelligent systems. This book takes the reader on a journey that begins with the fundamentals of multisensory experiences, moves through the relationship between the senses and technology, and finishes by considering what the future of those experiences might look like, and our responsibility in it.

This book describes key concepts and provides a lot of practical examples to illustrate the opportunities around designing multisensory experiences. This is the second edition of the book; the 1st Edition was published 2020 just when the pandemic transformed how we think about digital technology and how important sensory interactions are.

Multisensory Experiences: Where the Senses meet Technology was published in April 2025 by Oxford University Press: Multisensory Experiences - Carlos Velasco, Marianna Obrist - Oxford University Press